The federal government wants to give money to those in need. Some say it’s about charity but when many people look to the government for sustenance, it leaves those people in a very vulnerable situation. And it’s from both sides of the aisle.
Michael Savage, a man of the right, endorsed requiring that women on welfare have Norplant, the embedded contraceptive, forcibly implanted in them if they want to receive welfare.
“Should we permit women on welfare to keep knocking out babies to increase their benefits? Only an insane society would permit that” Savage reportedly said.
That’s nothing short of disgusting.
Recently, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Paterson said that people receiving food stamps should no longer be able to use them to purchase sugared soft drinks, particularly soda.
While hardly on the same scale, it exemplifies that the government that gives can threaten and bully those to whom it gives. In short, the more government gives the more power it has. The Democratic Party had made a mainstay of ads saying that you must vote for them or the Republicans will take away what they gave you. The government will seek to control those it purports to help.
Bloomberg and Savage are two sides of the same coin in that individual rights are subjugated to those who know better under the guise of benevolence. True charity doesn’t seek to control. Those who seek to control through charity are wolves in sheep’s clothing. It seems for the first time in a long time the country is starting to see through the disguise.
October 13, 2010 at 11:06 pm
OK, may I come in from another place? My husband and I "adopted" a really destitute family… father, mother and two little girls. Father was injured and couldn't work, and mother was 28 years old and could not read. We provided housing, food, clothes, and offered Church, which the mother accepted. Within four months, we discovered there had been another source of income all along, which the father had spent on drugs. Under the influence, he almost killed my husband and went to prison. We continued to care for mother and the girls, but we discovered a month after father went to prison that mother was pregnant again. Then she moved another man into the house with them, a man who never worked a day, and three months after the birth of the third girl, she was pregnant again by this guy. I go NUTS trying to think how I don't have the right to "control" people with our charity. We have given everything we have, and are in dire straits ourselves now, and I'm looking at buying diapers and formula for #4 and how many more? This is REAL LIFE, not theory.
October 14, 2010 at 1:01 am
Are you guys aware of the current trend in food stamps?
Here's how it goes: Now that actual stamps are no longer used (they use EBT cards now; like debit cards), purchasing unapproved items is more difficult. So…the recipients go into a grocery store, use the EBT card to buy approved items (meat, vegetables, etc.), and walk out the door. Then they SELL what they've just purchased to other customers at a reduced price. After selling off these items, the recipent then goes back INTO the store, this time with cash, and buys whatever he wants. Happens every day.
And the moral of this story is….if there's a government program out there, there's a way to scam it.
Regards,
October 14, 2010 at 3:56 pm
There's a place in Cali that has organic milk in nice big glass bottles; there's a two-dollar deposit.
EBT holders will come in, buy the whole stock, walk outside, drain it in front of the store, come back in for cash.
Some assistance programs do allow for cash withdrawals, too. Cali just figured out that theirs are being drawn from a bunch of out of state places…including Vegas. (The casinos even stopped accepting them in their ATMs. So now it's in the stores right next door.)